New Dr. Squatch customers receive 3 FREE SOAPS when you purchase the Buy3Get3 bundle at drsquatch.com/austin If you ever wanted to try Dr. Squatch, now is the perfect time! Apologies if some of the audio sounds off *again* in this video. Right after my trip I caught the plague at a bowling alley and it knocked me out for dang near two weeks. HOWEVER, we're back in the saddle now. I'm really excited for what we're doing over the next month and a half and I hope you enjoy watching it! Also, what's your favorite PSP Game? Legit mine is probably one of the many many extremely solid remakes. BUT, I will play Jeanne d'Arc ANYDAY.
Seriously. I remember it like it was yesterday. Christmas morning 04-05(forget the time) James brown died then vice city stories and power stone was how I mourned. Also! Dr Squanch the soap from ad is flipping amazing. The bourbon soap and the glacier one. Top flipping tier especially if you match it with Harry’s body wash!
The PSP was the last handheld I owned. My favorite of all time. Favorite games are the two God of War games, Crisis Core, Wipeout, Tomb Raider Legends, and Dissidia.
The PSP, for as old as it is, was WAY ahead of it's time. An amazing handheld. Even now, seems better than my modern Switch. Heck, you could use it as an mp3 player and even watch movies on it... back then! Sony has the tech and the money. They should make a PSP 2 to compete with the Steam Deck.
The PSP will forever hold a place in my heart, I grew up poor so I never had much; I went into school and a few kids had it and I was so upset I didn’t, I cried when I got home and my dad asked me what’s wrong, I told him about the PSP and he bought it for me the next month as a surprise, he worked extra shifts that entire month just so he could buy it for me, my father passed away this year ❤
The PSP was my first and for several years only console. I played SO MANY of the games you mentioned and this entire video was a huge nostalgia trip. Invizimals, Kenka Bancho, Half Minute Hero and, of course, Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do to Deserve This?, which still wins for the best game title ever.
Motorstorm: Arctic Edge was pretty rad. It was a full proper Motorstorm game on a handheld, and the snow theme made it feel like a distinct entry and not just a watered down handheld spinoff. Despite being on the weakest hardware, I think it's the second best in the series, behind Pacific Rift. Also Resistance Retribution is worth mentioning alongside Killzone Liberation. I remember it being one of the more successful attempts at doing a traditional shooter on the PSP.
Anytime the PSP comes up I just think about Loco Roco and The 3rd Birthday. The former being so cute and quirky and amazing. The latter being a much bigger monster. Weird gameplay mechanics and story that makes ZERO sense and a little too much inappropriate fanservice. Still absolutely loved that game. Also been using Dr. Squatch exclusively for about 3 years now :) great stuff!
Two of my big favorites on PSP are Jeanne D'Arc and Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee. (I didn't play Pangya on PSP but on PC when it was known as Albatross 18). Jeanne D'Arc is made by Level-5, who made Dark Cloud and Dragon Quest VIII. It's a fun strategy RPG that is quick to pick up for newbies of the genre as it doesn't go very deep into detail but it's still great fun.
I personally own about 200 psp games, that console was my jam. It came out right as I was going in to high-school, I was finally working and had money, all my gamer friends had one, the psp goes hand in hand for me with my high-school experience. I bought basically every game I could get my hands on for about 5 years straight, I own 90% of all the games you mentioned. I bought dead head fred first week cuz it had Dr. Cox in it, I'll never forget Snake shooting a laser out of the top of his head in Acid 2 when you use the Metal Gear card, Rengoku II was played every day at lunch by my friend group, ad hoc was something special. The amount of hours and psps I've gone through is insane, think I own about 7 or so maybe 3 still working. I always find it strange so many channels barely acknowledge the psp or just have little to say about it so I was very stoked to see this was your new vid, unapologetic psp gamer for life!
I’m glad you talked about Work Time Fun! My brother and I played it all the time as kids and I always considered it more along the lines of an even more absurdist mature version of Wario Ware with even more bizarre life sim elements as a setting/setup for the jobs/micro games.
If I have ever seen a PSP irl, it was in 2006 or something. Everyone quickly decided the different Nintendo handhelds were better. Sure enough, at the local second-hand store, they sell like 6 PSP games, but 260 Nintendo DS games. (They don't even sell the PSP itself, either, but almost every Nintendo handheld released before the Switch.)
As a kid I used to play a single game for few months on my PSP. Over 20 NG+ saves on both Size Matters and Secret Agent Clank About 700 hours in all Patapon games And after all these years I still couldn’t find that one remaining Precursor Orb in Daxter
thanks for reminding me of some games that were absolute bangers for me as a kid. one interesting psp game that I have reminded myself about was called Crush. It was a 3D puzzle platformer where you had to rotate the level to get to certain areas, kind of like in Fez. Echochrome and Echoshift were also really nice puzzle games with a very minimalist art style. Psp also had many great racing games, such as Burnout games, Gran Turismo and Motorstorm Arctic Edge.
As far as forgotten PS2 games go, I do feel like RAD Robotic Alchemical Drive is one of them, it was published by Enix before they got absorbed by Square Soft and it's an example of a hidden gem on one of the most biggest consoles ever. Another I can think of is Cold Fear and The Thing game, cause Survival Horror was quite vast on the PS2, including some that fell off the radar and don't get talked about much.
Sunday vs Magazine was 🔥🔥🔥 I emulated it a couple years back and unlocked all the characters not understanding a single thing lol. I just remember recognizing old anime characters I saw before and ones I never saw before. I fw that game heavy!
austin and rebel taxi uploading videos about the psp in the same week is 1 thing, but somehow they managed 2 talk about entirely different games. not sure what that means but it's something. i still remember buying the psp with summer job money back in the day. i have a lot of love 4 the little thing.
Man, Scott Wozniak, TripleJump and Austin Erection all three recommending "Dead Head Fred" to me within the same month, despite me NEVER having heard about that game before, just has to be a sign to actually check it out.
Thank you Austin for the battery reminder. It has sadly began with the battery in my console, but I took it out and the PSP case is still OK. That little thing was the first big buy I made with the money from my first job, so it holds a special place in my collection.
The PSP is probably my favorite handheld, it had so many great games in it! - God of War: Chains of Olympus - Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep - Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy - SoulCalibur: Broken Destiny - The 3rd Birthday - Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection - Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
One of my most favorite handhelds made by Sony during the early years, and I've played some of the most memorable games with that system, and of course I didn't played some of the games that came out with that handheld console. Seriously now I feel like going back and play my PSP.
Something some people may have missed in the video is the acronym for work time fun. It’s W.T.F. It’s what caught my eye at the game shop when I saw it on the shelf. I miss the PSP days man.
AC!D and AC!D 2 are my two favourite MGS games. I've never liked stealth games but for some reason card games scratch a perfect itch in my head for video games. I had so much fun with then. Loved them.
I got my PSP when it first came out. Bought many puzzle games and platformers on it. Even had both CAPCOM Collections,Midway Collection and Sega Genesis Collection. Mega Man Powered Up was another good game. The PSP is underrated handheld and was a lot of fun.
There are few thing that bring me the same joy as a new Austin Eruption videos, those few things being, Pokemon Emerald, Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2, and my dogs. Keep the videos coming!
The Death Jr games and Infected were my usual go-tos on the handheld and it's a shame they never got ported (well, one of the Death Jr ganes did, onto the Wii, but still).
The Final Fantasy IV collection for PSP was great. It was a remaster more or less before Pixel Remastered and even came with it's own version of FFIV after years.
*bursts through wall* DID SOMEBODY SAY DEAD HEAD FRED!? Also a game that I definitely think deserved a moment in the spotlight was Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner. It was a new title from one of the early creators of SMT and started what I like to call the Megami Tensei Adjacent series of games with titles like The Caligula Effect, Monark, and Guns Undarkness.
i remember very well when I bought Metal Gear Acid... I saw the box in the game store and I remember being super excited by thinking of playing a sequel to this massive franchise... when home I put the mini Cd in the PSP and when starts I begin to realize is a card strategy game... (before that there was nothing that I could hate more). I was destroyed so I left it hoklding for a while until I didn't have anything to play... When really getting into to it I've completely change my mind...That game made me addicted.. somehow they manage to make a great card game with MG... at the end is Kojima game... in the few past days after years ... I'm playing MG acid 2 for the first time.. I didn't know about... I'm back excited like a kid !!!!!
Aw man, you showed it on the intro but didnt mentioned! One of my favorite PSP experiences was (and still is thanks to emulation) the Badman games. Such a weird, simple concept, with a memorable "primary school band" soundtrack and some funny dialog between characters. I loooove that trilogy, and even dedicated a fair amount of time to the Vita spin off.
Honestly, what drew me to Dead Head Fred in the first place was him being voiced by John McGinley. The game also acknowledged that he's best known as Dr Cox, since he makes a reference to it in the credits scene.
Awesome video Austin. Appreciate you bringing up Metal Gear Acid 1 & 2 those games are peak childhood nostalgia for me. If you're looking for more forgotten and weird games, then you should definitely look up Bounty Hounds. It was a cool third person action RPG made by Namco involving customizing your character's weapons & armor parts like Armored Core. Hopefully I'm not the only one who remembers that game lol.
Good string of quality videos with fresh topics and/or interesting takes lately. I know you've been on RUclips for a while but you've been hitting my algorithm pretty hard lately and it's been a welcome addition!
The PSP was so good for JRPGs and a plethora of games. Their version of madden was fun for what it was. It also gave us Two of the best remakes ever made with Final Fantasy Tactics The War of The Lions, and Tactics Ogre Reborn. So friggin good
Austin, around the 14 minute mark you start playing a really familiar tune. Was that from Digimon Digital Card Battle from the PS1!? I adore that game and its soundtrack. Thanks for the sudden and intense nostalgia!
Pursuit Force 1&2 front and center! *Note* Both of these amazing titles are included on PS Plus Classics (and the rewind feature is a literal life saver for these punishing masterpieces)!
Work Time Fun, Pangya and Half Minute Hero are two of, not only my favorites on the system but, all time favorite games and got me through so many dull highschool classes. I would love for WTF to find a second life on the switch. Pangya is still one of my favorite golf games too. As for Kenka Bancho, I never got to play it but I desperately wanted it because it looked so silly.
I very much appreciate you for talking about Metal Gear Acid , i always love that game and never understood why no one try to turn it into a mobile game or something
Bro deadhead Fred was one of most weirdest game I ever played when I was a teenager. The concept was bizarre but I actually fell in love with the game itself
I got Metal Gear Acid 2 from a second hand store and was super lucky, as it had the Solid Eye within it, still packaged. I had some fun times with the game
Daxter is the best game to pick up with PSP for a first experience. It’s great platforming with all the charm of Daxter and his dad joke sense of humor. It’s solid and I was blown away to be playing it on a handheld back then. I’d love to play through it again. Maybe someday it will get a port or remaster.
I picked up Dead Head Fred solely because it had mah boy John C McGinley (Dr Cox from Scrubs) voicing the character. It did not disappoint. I also imported a JPN copy of Half Minute Hero 2 and bumbled my way through by just trying crap and then meticulously copying Kanji from a list I found online into Google translate until I could piece together what I had to do. It was an oddly satisfying experience.
the psp to this day has one of if not my all time favourite handheld console libraries, especially on the japanese side, one such game I’ve been playing is Mobile Suit Gundam Bonds of the battlefield portable, a port of an arcade game of the same name, think of it as a more arcady take on mechwarrior but gundam, I’ve sunk countless hours into it, it’s one of those perfect pick up and play styles of games, and a perfect pick for multiplayer on the go
oh my GODS I am so glad you mentioned Coded Arms (and its sequel), I loved those. My personal PSP favourite probably has to go to Ace Combat X, a surprisingly well designed portable version of the Ace Combat formula; Medievil Resurrection is also a rather lovely ambitious remake on the original game. Some aren't a fan of the added mascot character of sorts though, but I do enjoy the narration from Tom Baker.
The PSP had some truly weird stuff on it. I used to take major advantage of the GameStop policy to buy a used game and then, no questions asked, exchange it within a certain time period (a week I think) for another used title. I dropped in to check the local stock almost daily for something new to play. The weirdest title I wish I had kept was the Warhammer licensed card game Battle for Atluma. Check out the pre-rendered intro sometime for some choice CGI that screams "this is a thing we paid for." The game was an adaptation of the WarCry CCG and if there is one thing I love it is a digital CCG that lets you play to progress without micro-transactions. As much as I liked that game however, I did eventually trade it in. There is one game though that I still have lurking around in my collection even though I haven't owned a PSP for over a decade at this point. That honor belongs to Dungeons and Dragons Tactics. I had to hold on to that thing because I immediately recognized it as a game time would forget. Man, watching this video is really making me miss my PSP. Thanks for revisiting this amazing handheld!
You have to check out Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? It is a Disgaea platformer spinoff. It is peak NIS humor. It is brutally difficult but fair. You play as a penguin that says "dood" all the time. The 2d graphics are fantastic. It even has a modern Switch port.
I played so much of the PSP. Probably still my favorite handheld. Metal Gear Peace Walker and Phantasy Portable 2 absolutely defined my High School years.
In terms of obscure PSP games, I wanna shout out Macross Triangle and Ultimate Frontier, Gundam Vs Gundam NEXT Plus, all 4 3rd Gen Armored Core games ported to the thing, and the Phantasy Star Portable games
the ghost babel mention was the stuff of legends. I never played it personally, but it was always on cheat websites I'd look at as a kid and go "what the hell is ghost babel"
It's a shame that Mega Man Powered Up and Mega Man Maverick Hunter X have been forgotten. Putting them on the PSP feels like a kiss of death for any potential sequels to the remakes.
You need to check out Chili Con Carnage, Warriors of the Lost Empire, Gitaroo Man, Adventures To Go, R-Type Command, 40K Squad Command, the Armored Core Games, Phantasy Star, and Outrun.
I'm just glad that there's a decent amount of PSP exclusives still up on the Vita's PS store. I've been picking up a few here and there because who knows when it's going down for good.
Ghost of Sparta was 100% my jam also, yeah, i can kinda see why Inafune thought X1 Zero wouldn't be as interesting since he doesn't get the sword till X2 & he's basically NG+ minus the Hadoken... still mad that the X Legacy Collection didn't had it despite having Day of Sigma
Gotta pitch Armored Core: Formula Front International. I'm playing it on my vita and it's a great handheld game, kinda relaxing too since the AI does all the work during the battles, and it's super fun to come up with new builds for specific situations. Kind of the forgotten Armored Core game!
I must say, you mentioned "Getbackers". I actually have the DVD set. Ginji amano for life yo. Love the videos, and your style. Seriously, keep it up amigo.
In a world where it seems like every gaming youtuber is putting out the most based content. It's always super refreshing to know that we have awesome content like this to look forward to
Interesting to learn that Mega Man Powered Up sold poorly and is now considered obscure, it was my first ever PSP game, as I got its UMD disk together with it, but as I got newer and more "mature" games like GTA Vice City Stories, God of War Chains of Olympus, and Tekken 6 Dark Resurrection, I slowly forgot about the game myself, I just sucked at it and my inner 9-year-old couldn't progress past like the third level or so. Even more surreal is learning that it had a full-blown level creator community! (I never played its multiplayer simply because I had no idea how), AND that its level creator was shut down only a year ago! 16 years of fan-made levels lost, now this sucks hard, even though I found the game too hard and did not play it as much as I played others, I still quite liked it, and replayed the first levels a lot, does anyone knows if there have been any attempts at archiving its player-made levels, or if they have become lost media?
As a mega man fan there is no way I'm forgetting about mega man powered up and mega man Maverick hunter x especially considering that I did get those years ago and ironically thanks to the collections that we've been getting I'm still slightly disappointed we never got neither of them in their respective collections. Same goes for metal gear though at least peace Walker had a physical release which is now resorting in a lot of people saying that they wanna see peacewalker in volume 2 of the master collection which is inevitable and it will happen. But those are the main 3 examples of portable games I'm not gonna forget on the system. And while the PSP is pretty much gone at least it still has a strong legacy of being my first attempt at modding it, being able to play a whole bunch of games that I was unable to get at the time especially one star ocean game that I'm very glad got a remake that recently came out.
The best version to play Killzone Liberation would be the ps4/ps5 version that they ported. They added the last chapter of the game that wasn't available on released and was downloadable only.
Metal Gear Ac!d broke my brain. I was *not* expecting Final Metal Fantasy Gear Tactics, but this was back in the days when I would go into MGO with only the barrel and just run people over and throw up on them. What a weird decade.
initial D Street stage is super impressive honestly. It's a port of the Arcade Stage 3 game, which runs on naomi hardware. Essentially a dreamcast. so they somehow got that game running on a psp and then added more content then the arcade game. It's a really impressive port that plays really well.
Didn't see any of the games I played on here unfortunately, but they were almost all RPGs so I guess that tracks. LOVED Growlanser Wayfarer of Time. Picked up up randomly used and somehow found time to play it. Excellent, even if I messed up my ending. Valkyria Chronicles 2 and Z.H.P are also amazing, thankfully the later did get a rerelease, but VC2 is still suck on the PSP, and so is VC3 but only in Japanese so it's a double whammy.
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Apologies if some of the audio sounds off *again* in this video. Right after my trip I caught the plague at a bowling alley and it knocked me out for dang near two weeks. HOWEVER, we're back in the saddle now. I'm really excited for what we're doing over the next month and a half and I hope you enjoy watching it!
Also, what's your favorite PSP Game? Legit mine is probably one of the many many extremely solid remakes. BUT, I will play Jeanne d'Arc ANYDAY.
My favorite PSP game is Lumines.
My favorite is probably MM Powered Up, but MGS Portable Ops was a close second.
Love It austineruption Bro.
i wont forget, you have to do your annually new SAO game review @austineruption
I know this is random, but the Frogger PSP game isn't the stinker you're thinking of.
"This is now 18 years old" broke my brain for a few seconds there.
Seriously. I remember it like it was yesterday. Christmas morning 04-05(forget the time) James brown died then vice city stories and power stone was how I mourned. Also! Dr Squanch the soap from ad is flipping amazing. The bourbon soap and the glacier one. Top flipping tier especially if you match it with Harry’s body wash!
Everything happened 10 years ago. Repeat this mantra and eventually you'll believe it.
Are you feeling old yet?
Wait another 5-8 years and the switch will be a memory. Time has a way of humbling your ass no matter the age
I honestly thought it would be older
The PSP was the last handheld I owned. My favorite of all time. Favorite games are the two God of War games, Crisis Core, Wipeout, Tomb Raider Legends, and Dissidia.
The PSP Dissidia was amazing. It is a shame that they ruined it with the PS4 version.
@@cmallory7511 i agree dissidia on the psp was epic and i tried the ps4 one sucked
The PSP, for as old as it is, was WAY ahead of it's time. An amazing handheld. Even now, seems better than my modern Switch. Heck, you could use it as an mp3 player and even watch movies on it... back then! Sony has the tech and the money. They should make a PSP 2 to compete with the Steam Deck.
gta vice city stories, daxter and kingdom hearts birth by sleep
Same. It introduced me to the convenience of handheld gaming, as well as my Monster Hunter addiction.
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Oh misread, I thought they said "first".
The PSP will forever hold a place in my heart, I grew up poor so I never had much; I went into school and a few kids had it and I was so upset I didn’t, I cried when I got home and my dad asked me what’s wrong, I told him about the PSP and he bought it for me the next month as a surprise, he worked extra shifts that entire month just so he could buy it for me, my father passed away this year ❤
sorry for your loss bro 🙏🏾
Your father was a good man. My condolences 🙏
He sounds like cool guy may he rest in peace bro
Things like that you’ll never forget! Sorry for your loss bro ❤
I am sorry for your father bro hope he rests in peace.🥹🙏
The PSP was my first and for several years only console. I played SO MANY of the games you mentioned and this entire video was a huge nostalgia trip. Invizimals, Kenka Bancho, Half Minute Hero and, of course, Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do to Deserve This?, which still wins for the best game title ever.
Motorstorm: Arctic Edge was pretty rad. It was a full proper Motorstorm game on a handheld, and the snow theme made it feel like a distinct entry and not just a watered down handheld spinoff. Despite being on the weakest hardware, I think it's the second best in the series, behind Pacific Rift.
Also Resistance Retribution is worth mentioning alongside Killzone Liberation. I remember it being one of the more successful attempts at doing a traditional shooter on the PSP.
At least the PSP can run off the charge cable even if you don't have a battery in it.
This is true! Though the expansion warped the screen a bit cause it was IN the closet.
Anytime the PSP comes up I just think about Loco Roco and The 3rd Birthday. The former being so cute and quirky and amazing. The latter being a much bigger monster. Weird gameplay mechanics and story that makes ZERO sense and a little too much inappropriate fanservice. Still absolutely loved that game. Also been using Dr. Squatch exclusively for about 3 years now :) great stuff!
Two of my big favorites on PSP are Jeanne D'Arc and Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee. (I didn't play Pangya on PSP but on PC when it was known as Albatross 18). Jeanne D'Arc is made by Level-5, who made Dark Cloud and Dragon Quest VIII. It's a fun strategy RPG that is quick to pick up for newbies of the genre as it doesn't go very deep into detail but it's still great fun.
I personally own about 200 psp games, that console was my jam. It came out right as I was going in to high-school, I was finally working and had money, all my gamer friends had one, the psp goes hand in hand for me with my high-school experience. I bought basically every game I could get my hands on for about 5 years straight, I own 90% of all the games you mentioned. I bought dead head fred first week cuz it had Dr. Cox in it, I'll never forget Snake shooting a laser out of the top of his head in Acid 2 when you use the Metal Gear card, Rengoku II was played every day at lunch by my friend group, ad hoc was something special. The amount of hours and psps I've gone through is insane, think I own about 7 or so maybe 3 still working. I always find it strange so many channels barely acknowledge the psp or just have little to say about it so I was very stoked to see this was your new vid, unapologetic psp gamer for life!
I’m glad you talked about Work Time Fun! My brother and I played it all the time as kids and I always considered it more along the lines of an even more absurdist mature version of Wario Ware with even more bizarre life sim elements as a setting/setup for the jobs/micro games.
If I have ever seen a PSP irl, it was in 2006 or something. Everyone quickly decided the different Nintendo handhelds were better. Sure enough, at the local second-hand store, they sell like 6 PSP games, but 260 Nintendo DS games. (They don't even sell the PSP itself, either, but almost every Nintendo handheld released before the Switch.)
As a kid I used to play a single game for few months on my PSP.
Over 20 NG+ saves on both Size Matters and Secret Agent Clank
About 700 hours in all Patapon games
And after all these years I still couldn’t find that one remaining Precursor Orb in Daxter
Rebeltaxi and Austin Eruption releasing a weird psp games vid in the same week, Coincidence….i think NOT!!!
lol right?! great minds think alike
thanks for reminding me of some games that were absolute bangers for me as a kid. one interesting psp game that I have reminded myself about was called Crush. It was a 3D puzzle platformer where you had to rotate the level to get to certain areas, kind of like in Fez. Echochrome and Echoshift were also really nice puzzle games with a very minimalist art style. Psp also had many great racing games, such as Burnout games, Gran Turismo and Motorstorm Arctic Edge.
As far as forgotten PS2 games go, I do feel like RAD Robotic Alchemical Drive is one of them, it was published by Enix before they got absorbed by Square Soft and it's an example of a hidden gem on one of the most biggest consoles ever. Another I can think of is Cold Fear and The Thing game, cause Survival Horror was quite vast on the PS2, including some that fell off the radar and don't get talked about much.
Sunday vs Magazine was 🔥🔥🔥 I emulated it a couple years back and unlocked all the characters not understanding a single thing lol. I just remember recognizing old anime characters I saw before and ones I never saw before. I fw that game heavy!
I'm not sure if these qualify as forgotten gems, but the Trails series definitely deserves more love💗
In my opinion it needs less. Hugely overrated unless we're talking about the older ones. So boring and generic.
Please...no.
I literally cannot get away from this series no matter where I go. Even more so when it comes to the awful fanbase.
@@shadowmaksim okay, as someone who just got into the series, my first game being trails from zero, what am I missing exactly?
austin and rebel taxi uploading videos about the psp in the same week is 1 thing, but somehow they managed 2 talk about entirely different games. not sure what that means but it's something. i still remember buying the psp with summer job money back in the day. i have a lot of love 4 the little thing.
Man, Scott Wozniak, TripleJump and Austin Erection all three recommending "Dead Head Fred" to me within the same month, despite me NEVER having heard about that game before, just has to be a sign to actually check it out.
Or how about Austin and PanPizza talking about Megaman Powered UP the same week lol
Wait wait wait... Austin ERECTION?!
Both you and RebelTaxi released similar videos around the same week.
Similar topic, but the content is unique in each.
Thank you Austin for the battery reminder.
It has sadly began with the battery in my console, but I took it out and the PSP case is still OK.
That little thing was the first big buy I made with the money from my first job, so it holds a special place in my collection.
For some reason I knew that a PSP video would come eventually.
The PSP is probably my favorite handheld, it had so many great games in it!
- God of War: Chains of Olympus
- Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
- Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy
- SoulCalibur: Broken Destiny
- The 3rd Birthday
- Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
- Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
One of my most favorite handhelds made by Sony during the early years, and I've played some of the most memorable games with that system, and of course I didn't played some of the games that came out with that handheld console. Seriously now I feel like going back and play my PSP.
Something some people may have missed in the video is the acronym for work time fun. It’s W.T.F. It’s what caught my eye at the game shop when I saw it on the shelf. I miss the PSP days man.
Fact that both Austin Eruption and RebelTaxi release video about PSP and someone playing PSP in Madame Web in same week! It good time being a PSP fan.
AC!D and AC!D 2 are my two favourite MGS games. I've never liked stealth games but for some reason card games scratch a perfect itch in my head for video games. I had so much fun with then. Loved them.
I got my PSP when it first came out.
Bought many puzzle games and platformers on it.
Even had both CAPCOM Collections,Midway Collection and Sega Genesis Collection.
Mega Man Powered Up was another good game.
The PSP is underrated handheld and was a lot of fun.
There are few thing that bring me the same joy as a new Austin Eruption videos, those few things being, Pokemon Emerald, Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2, and my dogs. Keep the videos coming!
And Repping the best soap on the planet. Absolute legend.
The Death Jr games and Infected were my usual go-tos on the handheld and it's a shame they never got ported (well, one of the Death Jr ganes did, onto the Wii, but still).
Lethal alliance was actually pretty cool
The Final Fantasy IV collection for PSP was great. It was a remaster more or less before Pixel Remastered and even came with it's own version of FFIV after years.
*bursts through wall* DID SOMEBODY SAY DEAD HEAD FRED!?
Also a game that I definitely think deserved a moment in the spotlight was Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner. It was a new title from one of the early creators of SMT and started what I like to call the Megami Tensei Adjacent series of games with titles like The Caligula Effect, Monark, and Guns Undarkness.
i remember very well when I bought Metal Gear Acid... I saw the box in the game store and I remember being super excited by thinking of playing a sequel to this massive franchise... when home I put the mini Cd in the PSP and when starts I begin to realize is a card strategy game... (before that there was nothing that I could hate more). I was destroyed so I left it hoklding for a while until I didn't have anything to play... When really getting into to it I've completely change my mind...That game made me addicted.. somehow they manage to make a great card game with MG... at the end is Kojima game... in the few past days after years ... I'm playing MG acid 2 for the first time.. I didn't know about... I'm back excited like a kid !!!!!
my favorite game for the longest time was the Star Wars Renegade Squadron i received with my darth vader psp. so damn nostalgic.
Aw man, you showed it on the intro but didnt mentioned! One of my favorite PSP experiences was (and still is thanks to emulation) the Badman games. Such a weird, simple concept, with a memorable "primary school band" soundtrack and some funny dialog between characters. I loooove that trilogy, and even dedicated a fair amount of time to the Vita spin off.
Fun Trivia: one of the programmers of EXIT was actually ZUN , the creator of Touhou Project.
Honestly, what drew me to Dead Head Fred in the first place was him being voiced by John McGinley. The game also acknowledged that he's best known as Dr Cox, since he makes a reference to it in the credits scene.
Awesome video Austin. Appreciate you bringing up Metal Gear Acid 1 & 2 those games are peak childhood nostalgia for me.
If you're looking for more forgotten and weird games, then you should definitely look up Bounty Hounds. It was a cool third person action RPG made by Namco involving customizing your character's weapons & armor parts like Armored Core. Hopefully I'm not the only one who remembers that game lol.
I'm gonna miss outrun coast 2 coast 2006..... It was on the psp and then faded away into time, never to be seen again..... Thanks sega
Good string of quality videos with fresh topics and/or interesting takes lately. I know you've been on RUclips for a while but you've been hitting my algorithm pretty hard lately and it's been a welcome addition!
The PSP was so good for JRPGs and a plethora of games. Their version of madden was fun for what it was.
It also gave us Two of the best remakes ever made with Final Fantasy Tactics The War of The Lions, and Tactics Ogre Reborn. So friggin good
Austin, around the 14 minute mark you start playing a really familiar tune. Was that from Digimon Digital Card Battle from the PS1!? I adore that game and its soundtrack. Thanks for the sudden and intense nostalgia!
20:03 holy Lord, is that GetBackers? That was an unexpected blast from the past o_O
I miss the PSP. I loved loved Loco Roco and Patapon. I still have the music in my ears from both of the games. They were so damn good.
Pursuit Force 1&2 front and center! *Note* Both of these amazing titles are included on PS Plus Classics (and the rewind feature is a literal life saver for these punishing masterpieces)!
24:32 I looked away for a moment and misheard as "Hemorrhoid Hero". I was really intrigued by how a game with this title would look like
Work Time Fun, Pangya and Half Minute Hero are two of, not only my favorites on the system but, all time favorite games and got me through so many dull highschool classes. I would love for WTF to find a second life on the switch. Pangya is still one of my favorite golf games too.
As for Kenka Bancho, I never got to play it but I desperately wanted it because it looked so silly.
I very much appreciate you for talking about Metal Gear Acid , i always love that game and never understood why no one try to turn it into a mobile game or something
Bro deadhead Fred was one of most weirdest game I ever played when I was a teenager. The concept was bizarre but I actually fell in love with the game itself
I got Metal Gear Acid 2 from a second hand store and was super lucky, as it had the Solid Eye within it, still packaged.
I had some fun times with the game
This is why I follow, you're the only one that mentions shit like Pursuit Force and Vandark, games I loved growing up with no one remembers
A 300 Hundred game..Man the movie was HUGE here in Greece. Of course. And I did had a PSP back then. Too bad I didn't knew about the game...
Daxter is the best game to pick up with PSP for a first experience. It’s great platforming with all the charm of Daxter and his dad joke sense of humor. It’s solid and I was blown away to be playing it on a handheld back then. I’d love to play through it again. Maybe someday it will get a port or remaster.
*Is having flashbacks of playing Dissidia Final Fantasy for the PSP when I was a teenager during high school years.*
20:40 Bro! Super Robot Wars A Portable a Mecha Anime crossover has been fully translated and it is Dead Ass Awesome!!!
I picked up Dead Head Fred solely because it had mah boy John C McGinley (Dr Cox from Scrubs) voicing the character. It did not disappoint. I also imported a JPN copy of Half Minute Hero 2 and bumbled my way through by just trying crap and then meticulously copying Kanji from a list I found online into Google translate until I could piece together what I had to do. It was an oddly satisfying experience.
Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade was my favorite game on the psp but I don’t have a psp anymore and wonder if it’s as good as I remember
I totally forgot about Coded Arms but it was one of my favorite games that I had for PSP!! Thanks for unlocking that memory for me
Literally just discovered rengoku randomly a couple fays ago cool to see someone bring it up cause it is so unique
the psp to this day has one of if not my all time favourite handheld console libraries, especially on the japanese side, one such game I’ve been playing is Mobile Suit Gundam Bonds of the battlefield portable, a port of an arcade game of the same name, think of it as a more arcady take on mechwarrior but gundam, I’ve sunk countless hours into it, it’s one of those perfect pick up and play styles of games, and a perfect pick for multiplayer on the go
oh my GODS I am so glad you mentioned Coded Arms (and its sequel), I loved those.
My personal PSP favourite probably has to go to Ace Combat X, a surprisingly well designed portable version of the Ace Combat formula; Medievil Resurrection is also a rather lovely ambitious remake on the original game. Some aren't a fan of the added mascot character of sorts though, but I do enjoy the narration from Tom Baker.
The PSP had some truly weird stuff on it. I used to take major advantage of the GameStop policy to buy a used game and then, no questions asked, exchange it within a certain time period (a week I think) for another used title. I dropped in to check the local stock almost daily for something new to play. The weirdest title I wish I had kept was the Warhammer licensed card game Battle for Atluma. Check out the pre-rendered intro sometime for some choice CGI that screams "this is a thing we paid for." The game was an adaptation of the WarCry CCG and if there is one thing I love it is a digital CCG that lets you play to progress without micro-transactions. As much as I liked that game however, I did eventually trade it in. There is one game though that I still have lurking around in my collection even though I haven't owned a PSP for over a decade at this point. That honor belongs to Dungeons and Dragons Tactics. I had to hold on to that thing because I immediately recognized it as a game time would forget. Man, watching this video is really making me miss my PSP. Thanks for revisiting this amazing handheld!
20:30 Mai from Mai Hime! 🤩
Yay! Someone else who knows about how awesome Dead Head Fred was! :D
Dr. Cox as a mostly undread protagonist was the best :)
You have to check out Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?
It is a Disgaea platformer spinoff. It is peak NIS humor. It is brutally difficult but fair. You play as a penguin that says "dood" all the time. The 2d graphics are fantastic.
It even has a modern Switch port.
Omg I'm so glad you brought up Work Time Fun!!!
It's such an oddball game lmao
Man, i loved Dead Head Fred. Was really fun when i was younger
Love the “Licensed games(Of course)” time stamp on the video
I played so much of the PSP. Probably still my favorite handheld. Metal Gear Peace Walker and Phantasy Portable 2 absolutely defined my High School years.
Peace Walker and Portable Ops are the best
whats even crazier about rouge squadron is that its based on the cancelled Free Radical Battlefront 3.
In terms of obscure PSP games, I wanna shout out Macross Triangle and Ultimate Frontier, Gundam Vs Gundam NEXT Plus, all 4 3rd Gen Armored Core games ported to the thing, and the Phantasy Star Portable games
Invizimals was my Pokémon. It was so good.
Pokémon never had Brian Blessed. I rest my case.
the ghost babel mention was the stuff of legends. I never played it personally, but it was always on cheat websites I'd look at as a kid and go "what the hell is ghost babel"
It's a shame that Mega Man Powered Up and Mega Man Maverick Hunter X have been forgotten. Putting them on the PSP feels like a kiss of death for any potential sequels to the remakes.
You need to check out Chili Con Carnage, Warriors of the Lost Empire, Gitaroo Man, Adventures To Go, R-Type Command, 40K Squad Command, the Armored Core Games, Phantasy Star, and Outrun.
I'm just glad that there's a decent amount of PSP exclusives still up on the Vita's PS store. I've been picking up a few here and there because who knows when it's going down for good.
Power stone collection on the psp 😍, still playing this classic on my ps vita now to this day
Ghost of Sparta was 100% my jam
also, yeah, i can kinda see why Inafune thought X1 Zero wouldn't be as interesting since he doesn't get the sword till X2 & he's basically NG+ minus the Hadoken... still mad that the X Legacy Collection didn't had it despite having Day of Sigma
Gotta pitch Armored Core: Formula Front International. I'm playing it on my vita and it's a great handheld game, kinda relaxing too since the AI does all the work during the battles, and it's super fun to come up with new builds for specific situations. Kind of the forgotten Armored Core game!
I must say, you mentioned "Getbackers". I actually have the DVD set. Ginji amano for life yo.
Love the videos, and your style. Seriously, keep it up amigo.
Still own and use my soft-modded PSP so I'm pretty stoked for this video
I loved my PSP Go. Modded it for emulation and it was great for that.
In a world where it seems like every gaming youtuber is putting out the most based content. It's always super refreshing to know that we have awesome content like this to look forward to
Carnage Heart EXA would like to have a word with any forgotten PSP retrospective. Hell, that entire franchise is a lost hidden gem.
Interesting to learn that Mega Man Powered Up sold poorly and is now considered obscure, it was my first ever PSP game, as I got its UMD disk together with it, but as I got newer and more "mature" games like GTA Vice City Stories, God of War Chains of Olympus, and Tekken 6 Dark Resurrection, I slowly forgot about the game myself, I just sucked at it and my inner 9-year-old couldn't progress past like the third level or so.
Even more surreal is learning that it had a full-blown level creator community! (I never played its multiplayer simply because I had no idea how), AND that its level creator was shut down only a year ago! 16 years of fan-made levels lost, now this sucks hard, even though I found the game too hard and did not play it as much as I played others, I still quite liked it, and replayed the first levels a lot, does anyone knows if there have been any attempts at archiving its player-made levels, or if they have become lost media?
Exit by Taito is on the xbox360 btw- with dlc levels
Oh damn I havent thought about Lethal Alliance since playing the DS version all those years ago
As a mega man fan there is no way I'm forgetting about mega man powered up and mega man Maverick hunter x especially considering that I did get those years ago and ironically thanks to the collections that we've been getting I'm still slightly disappointed we never got neither of them in their respective collections. Same goes for metal gear though at least peace Walker had a physical release which is now resorting in a lot of people saying that they wanna see peacewalker in volume 2 of the master collection which is inevitable and it will happen. But those are the main 3 examples of portable games I'm not gonna forget on the system. And while the PSP is pretty much gone at least it still has a strong legacy of being my first attempt at modding it, being able to play a whole bunch of games that I was unable to get at the time especially one star ocean game that I'm very glad got a remake that recently came out.
Quite interesting watch, good job. Didn't know about many games from here, some of them looks worth to check 😮
The best version to play Killzone Liberation would be the ps4/ps5 version that they ported. They added the last chapter of the game that wasn't available on released and was downloadable only.
Metal Gear Ac!d broke my brain. I was *not* expecting Final Metal Fantasy Gear Tactics, but this was back in the days when I would go into MGO with only the barrel and just run people over and throw up on them.
What a weird decade.
I miss Fireteam Bravo online, I made some real friends on that game and we still game with each other to this day
I miss my PSP and Vita. really interesting niche modding culture behind it too. I remember the whole experience very fondly.
Rengoku - tower of purgatory was SOOOO underrated !
initial D Street stage is super impressive honestly. It's a port of the Arcade Stage 3 game, which runs on naomi hardware. Essentially a dreamcast. so they somehow got that game running on a psp and then added more content then the arcade game. It's a really impressive port that plays really well.
Rebel Taxi is more popular than we thought, huh?
Didn't see any of the games I played on here unfortunately, but they were almost all RPGs so I guess that tracks. LOVED Growlanser Wayfarer of Time. Picked up up randomly used and somehow found time to play it. Excellent, even if I messed up my ending. Valkyria Chronicles 2 and Z.H.P are also amazing, thankfully the later did get a rerelease, but VC2 is still suck on the PSP, and so is VC3 but only in Japanese so it's a double whammy.
I did get an Initial D game for the PSP that I picked up at a convention. Pretty fun!